Once again, the UEFA European Championship is just a round the corner, and Europe will spend four weeks going football crazy as each team  takes  its turn on the international pitch. A UEFA European Championship, of course, means an entire month of nothing  but football - with fixed schedules featuring up to three games a day. All this naturally makes every  football  fan's heart  beat faster, and we at PPRO can hardly wait until the first kickoff - at 9pm on the 10th of June in Paris's St. Denis stadium.

Today, SIFMA hosted a roundtable on cybersecurity with leading financial services participants and Members of Congress to drive a discussion between industry and lawmakers on the role of the capital markets in funding cybersecurity initiatives. The event was held on Capitol Hill and congressional participants included House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Reps. Jim Langevin (D-RI), Buddy Carter (R-GA), Jim Himes (D-CT) and Randy Neugebauer (R-TX).

FairFX, the FinTech low-cost multi-currency payments service, won the Moneywise award for Most Trusted Prepaid Card Provider at a ceremony hosted last night in London.

The company was selected over competitors in the prepaid card space such as Travelex, Thomas Cook and the Post Office. In a vote by customers and Moneywise readers, the awards recognised the UK's most trusted and best-respected companies. There were 64 businesses that reached the final awards shortlist, with the winners being selected from hundreds of thousands of customer responses.

Synchronoss, the leading innovator of cloud solutions, secure enterprise productivity and software-based activation for companies across the globe, today announces the general availability of its Secure Mobility Platform (SMP) – the combination of a highly secure application container and integrated productivity suite that together improves the productivity and performances of enterprise mobile workforces.

Designed and built using secure enterprise mobility technology contributed by Goldman Sachs through the venture announced last November, Synchronoss SMP consists of:

Only three new banks have opened in the United States since 2010.  Before the financial crisis, over 100 banks set up shop each year, on average, according to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency that approves new banks.

Why?  Why is the USA failing at banking innovation?

NetOTC, the risk solutions firm that has been designing and building a full end-to-end market infrastructure for non-cleared OTC derivatives in close collaboration with regulatory and industry bodies, banks and their end customers, today announced that it had taken the decision to put its initiative on hold.

Today the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), Canada’s national association representing investor relations professionals, announced that it has partnered with London Stock Exchange Group’s investor relations platform, ELITE Connect, to deliver professional development via webcast making education available to investor relations professionals across Canada.